[SOLVED] accidentally deleted a xxx.conf file

[Jonathan.parsy]

Hi you all,
i was trying to get rid of test vm's who where on a removed storaged so i've deleted a .conf file but i made a little mistake and deleted the worng one.
this vm is still working, i have an ssh access to it
the virtual disk hasn't be touched
how can i restore the .conf?

Thx

 

[Chris]

Hi,
do you have a backup of the VM? If so, you can get the config from the backup by restoring the VM to a different ID and copy that config.

 

[Jonathan.parsy]

Hi thx for answering,
no i didn't have any backup

 

[Chris]

In that case you will have to recreate the config by yourself. You can use a config from a new VM as template and change it according to the output you get from ps aux | grep '/usr/bin/kvm -id <VMID>' with the VMID of the config you deleted (assuming that the process is still running).

 

[Jonathan.parsy]

Thx it worked
my vm is alive
thank you

 

[Chris]

You are welcome. Please don't forget to create backups of your VMs!

 

[Jonathan.parsy]

and of the .conf i think
thx

 

[Chris]

and of the .conf i think
thx

The config is included in the vzdump backup. If you use a different backup solution you will have to make sure you include this information as well.

 

[Jonathan.parsy]

ok, thx a lot

 

[cleitonpena]

Thx it worked
my vm is alive
thank you

Please, could you help me, and list step by step how you did to recover the .conf file?

The return of this command ps aux | grep '/usr/bin/kvm -id <VMID>' in my case, is:

root     2489490  0.0  0.0   6464  2048 pts/0    S+   11:34   0:00 grep /usr/bin/kvm -id 7001

Thank you very much.